Donald Trump defends using Yiddish slang for a man's genitals to mock Hillary in tweets

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday.
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WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump used a vulgarity to describe Hillary Clinton's loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential race and then derided her over the time she took for a bathroom break during a debate.

Trump's off-color comments about the Democratic front-runner at a campaign appearance on Monday night came a day after he called Clinton a liar for saying his proposal to bar entry of all foreign Muslims to the United States aided Islamic State's propaganda efforts.

"She was going to beat Obama,"Trump said of Clinton, speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "... She was going to beat — she was favored to win — and she got schlonged. She lost."

"Schlong" is a Yiddish slang term for a man's genitals.

Trump later defended his use of the term in a Tuesday Tweetstorm:

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Trump, leading the field to be the Republican nominee in the November 2016 presidential election, also made a reference to Clinton returning to the stage late after a bathroom break during a Democratic debate on Saturday night.

"I thought she gave up," Trump said. "Where did she go? Where did Hillary go? They had to start the debate without her. Phase II. I know where she went. It's disgusting. I don't want to talk about it."